I need to run or display ABAP/4 report over the web? How is that
possible?
You may not be able to display a report directly on net. However, you need to
create BSPs (business server pages) on the SAP Web Application Server and make
them available on net.
SAP Web Application Server, a part of mySAP Technology, is SAP's response to
these new requirements. SAP Web Application Server offers a stable foundation
for Web-centric, mission-critical applications and Web Services. It is more than
just a platform for mySAP.com components. The new release 6.20 of SAP Web
Application Server offers a fully J2EE compliant environment for quickly
developing and deploying dynamic, collaborative Web applications and Web
services. SAP's decade of experience in application servers complements the J2EE
standard with features that are mandatory in a mission-critical business
application environment and thus provides the most reliable and proven Web
Application Server today.
With SAP Web Application Server professional platform-independent business
solutions, leveraging J2EE are a reality.
SAP Web Application Server is the underlying technology for all mySAP.com
components (such as mySAP Customer Relationship Management, mySAP Business
Intelligence, and the forthcoming SAP R/3 Enterprise). It also offers a wide
range of services that enable extensive, global e-business solutions, including
a development environment, software logistics, security, and connectivity.
Building on the scalable and reliable SAP application server, SAP Web
Application Server delivers innovative, native Web technologies, a J2EE and ABAP
environment for architecting applications, and Web services for
business-to-business collaboration.
Provision of Web Services
The SAP Web Application Server is the underlying infrastructure for
applications that offer Web services to users and other applications either
directly or through the portal and exchange infrastructure. Web services
provided through the SAP Web Application Server adhere to a common set of open
technical Internet standards that enable cooperation and interoperability across
different technical platforms. A professional programming model with a
development and runtime environment for building top notch user-centric Web
services ensure intuitive point-and-click and state-of-the-art Web-based user
interfaces. User-centric Web services clearly separate layout (HTML) from data
(XML), and thus provide automatic support of multiple languages,
personalization, and interface customization help to speed up user-interface
development.
Application-centric Web services fully leverages open standards like
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Extensible Markup Language (XML), Simple
Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and
Universal Discovery, Description, and Integration (UDDI) providing customers
with the opportunity to drive innovative, easy to change business processes
without the constraints of a proprietary infrastructure.
